Royals Battle Chargers

#3 Camosun Chargers @ #2 Douglas Royals – Friday February 25, 3:00pm | WATCH HERE

The first of two men’s semi-finals on Friday will see the Chargers and Royals meet with the winner advancing to the gold medal match on Saturday.

The Royals earned a bye into the semi-final finishing second in the standings, four points up on the Chargers who finished third.  During the regular season the Royals won all three matches including two that went to five-sets.  They last faced each other on February 6^th when the Royals won in four-sets.

For the Chargers, their last regular season match was that loss at Douglas and needed to shake off some rust on Thursday as they opened the PACWEST championship tournament.  The faced a gritty CBC Bearcat team in the quarterfinal and though they won in three-sets it was not easy.

These two teams met in the 2020 championship tournament which saw the fourth seeded Chargers upset the top ranked Royals in five sets in a semi-final.

Head-to-Head:

Records: Chargers 8-7 – Royals 10-5
Sets Won: Chargers 34 – Royals 37
Sets Lost: Chargers 30 – Royals 22

Kill Leaders: Vitor Pereira – 132 kills (Chargers) – Matthew Shand – 210 kills (Royals)

Block Leaders: Dale MacDonell – 15 blocks (Chargers) – Greg Moore – 42 blocks (Royals)

Dig Leaders: Kristofer La Guardia – 97 digs (Chargers) – Nick Hansen – 104 digs (Royals)